tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256317.post2720803641118275029..comments2023-09-07T22:24:51.654-05:00Comments on League of Melbotis: A few items of no importThe Leaguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04836241071795980225noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256317.post-8919359287646041252008-05-18T19:53:00.000-05:002008-05-18T19:53:00.000-05:00Wow, yeah, CNN.com is currently displaying a story...Wow, yeah, CNN.com is currently displaying a story entitled, "Grizzly victim: 'He's eating my brain!'". With video.mcsteanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13340293646440856741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256317.post-17030850890250633322008-05-16T11:03:00.000-05:002008-05-16T11:03:00.000-05:00Yeah... there's a lot of room for the non sequitir...Yeah... there's a lot of room for the non sequitir headlines to be taken a little too lightly. Hopefully they'll get this down to where it's only the real tabloidy stuff.<BR/><BR/>And, yes, it is true that I got into superheroes through the X-Men. I think my main points of interest were X-Men, Spidey, Batman and JLI. I also read Teen Titans, Punisher, TMNT, and a few other titles. Back then, it was considered a very friendly rivalry,a nd they would even say nice things about each other in their letters pages, etc... The whole "we only read Marvel" thing seems to be a weird by-product of the internet and some ugliness when Jemas and Quesada took the reigns at Marvel.<BR/><BR/>I guess I am not sure why the media has decided to take a part in the ever-evolving story that Marvel's heroes were somehow magically "better" than DC's. <BR/><BR/>As per one step ahead of DC, the real reason I sort of sigh when I hear that Marvel is the innovator is that Marvel publishes pretty much only super heroes. DC takes its chances with the Vertigo line, Its CMX branch, and was first on the block bringing comics back for little kids. For years, they've brought in and developed a lot of the top line talent, who miay or may not eventually drift back to Marvel.<BR/><BR/>Even Marvel's current stab with reprinting European comics from Soleil is five years after DC's failed Humanoids experiment.<BR/><BR/>I read both DC and Marvel. I'm just more interested in the DCU as a whole, but various runs and writers from Marvel. I drop titles and pick them up, depending upon who is handling them. They have talented folks over there. And if you're not reading Cap or Daredevil, shame on you.<BR/><BR/>Someday I'll outline my various attempts to get into Superman comics, and what happened. But it's not very interesting.The Leaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04836241071795980225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256317.post-44795455022771870712008-05-16T09:43:00.000-05:002008-05-16T09:43:00.000-05:00Last week, CNN briefly was selling a shirt with "F...Last week, CNN briefly was selling a shirt with "Fire shoots out top of college building."<BR/><BR/>The headline was taken from a story out of San Antonio, as a one hundred year old building on the campus of Our Lady of the Lake University burned. A lot of people here were kind of offended by that, and CNN pulled the shirt after a few hours, I think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256317.post-11020816915526145932008-05-16T09:09:00.000-05:002008-05-16T09:09:00.000-05:00I remember the days when The League collected X-Me...I remember the days when The League collected X-Men, X-Factor, and even Excalibur comics, with DC comics taking a much more secondary role (and let me add the blasphenous comment that back in those days, I don't really remember Superman as even really registering as a blip on the radar- definitely some Batman, but I honestly don't really remember Superman in the mix back in those junior high/early high school days. I remember that I had some Teen Titans...)<BR/><BR/>Anyway, my point is just that even though the League now seems pretty firmly allied with DC, there might have been a day sometime in the foggy past when someone might have unequivocally stated that Marvel was superior to DC, and the League might have just quietly nodded in agreement (although maybe not- even back then you were a pretty big Batman fan. And maybe Justice League? I know Reed used to collect Justice League...)J.S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03903186469796595837noreply@blogger.com